. >>> about 140,000 inmates per year are booked into the maricopa county jail in phoenix, arizona. >>tep up to the podium, please. okay. turn to the left for me. >> those charged with less serious crimes will likely have a court hearing and be released within a day or two to await resolution of their charges. >> come on out. >> but chronic offenders are those charged with violent crimes, could be held for weeks, months or even years.oare those charged with violent crimes, could be held for weeks, months or even yearre those charged with violent crimes, could be held for weeks, months or even year those charged with violent crimes, could be held for weeks, months or even years. until their cases are tried and settled. during the intake process, these inmates are immediately separated from the others. >> so we put them in the isolation cells, but whenever we get here, we do a walkaround. isn't he the one we dressed out yesterday? >> you know, yeah, combative. this gentleman's isolated because he's combative with staff. so we wouldn't be surprised when he's ready to go upstairs for his p

you get through the doors is a challenge. >> go to the west gates, see officer von reagan. >> the maricopa county jail has been the subject of more media attention than probably any other jail in america. in recent years it's been due to the county's policies toward illegal immigrants. before that, much of the coverage centered on its practices. such as constructing an outdoor housing facility with tents. the striped uniforms and pink underwear inmates are required to wear. and the use of chain gangs to perform everything from maintenance work to burying the indigent. behind it all is the man who has run the jail since 1992. sheriff joe arpaio. >> one of my philosophies is you should never live better in jail than you do on the outside. >> you purposely want your jails to be tough, correct? >> well, i sure don't want it to be a hilton hotel like some other prisons around the nation. it's all this rehabilitation, education. we have all that in our jails, nobody talks about, but we punish our children, take away certain things from them, privileges. why can't we punish people that have commi

>>> at the maricopa county jail in phoenix, the average stay is 26 days.for six months while she and her attorney attempt to reach a plea deal with her prosecutor. >> you're in a little box all day, either by yourself or with a stranger that you don't know anything about. you don't know why they're there. and you can't have fun in jail. you can try, but you're here to do time and leave. >> but now at least the end is in sight. dailey decided to sign a plea deal reducing her charge of sexual misconduct with a minor to attempted sexual misconduct with a minor. as a result, she will serve another six months at maricopa before going home, but she will face lifelong probation and must register as a sex offender adhering to the long list of restrictions that come with it. >> the fear i have once i leave is the fact that every time i see someone younger than me or younger than 18, i'm going to have to -- i'm going to have to turn and basically run away. i'm going to be labeled as a sex offender the rest of my life. and it's really hard because i've never seen mys

male housing units. >> these are the worst in maricopa county. get them out of gp and stuff downstairs. those are the shock collars out there. get them out there, stuff calms down for a while. >> these inmates have either committed violent attacks in the jail or have been identified as gang members. some are awaiting trial while others have been convicted and are appealing their verdicts or sentences. they are isolated in very stark cells, 23 hours a day and get one hour of rec time in an empty concrete room with a skylight located right next door to their cells. >> the rec pen is the same size as the cell so you go from one cell to another to walk in circles. it's life in solitary confinement. no cellmates, no card games, no chess, but that's life. >> without the distraction of television, radio or cellmates, even the most hardened criminals can break under the pressure. >> every 25 minutes we do our walks to check on inmates to make sure the inmates are safe. they're a greater risk to themselves than anything else. they're isolated. so thoughts

. ♪ ♪ >> the maricopa county jail is divided between two distinct worlds, the first is an outdoor worlde jail is internationally famous for tent city, a cluster of outdoor housing yards for both men and women. >> ladies, fall in. i'm not talking to the fence, am i? >> life here sucks. i mean it's terrible. i don't even think this place should exist to be honest with you. >> but the vast majority of maricopa inmates live in one of five different indoor facilities where they will rarely, if ever, experience any time outdoors. >> i'm cousin ashton, i come out blastin', i'm about as hungry as a taliban fasting so just like the clumps i'll fill my plate, ghetto grinding all day it's a crime of fate. >> in one of maricopa's primary men's facilities, the fourth avenue jail, when inmates are not in their small two-person cells, they can work out in an indoor rec room or in the common area between their cells. but every afternoon many of the inmates shift focus from their bodies to their bank accounts. >> this is how i make my money. i get 50 or 60 bucks every week. i got money coming off the st

>>> day-to-day security at the maricopa county jail in phoenix is handled by detention officers. ties assigned to the jail and who are the front line in maintaining order. they're backed up by the jail's intelligence division, which is constantly gathering information on potential problems before they can escalate. >> the key's going to look like this. >> okay. >> it's going to be pretty much just etched out of the toothbrush. >> okay. >> all right. >> but we've got to hit them quick because if not he'll swallow it. >> all right. >> the fourth avenue jail's intelligence division suspects one of its maximum security inmates of having a homemade handcuff key. >> do the cells in four bravo 200, 100, 3, 4. do they have the back windows into the water wells? >> yes, they do. >> okay, they do. we will be monkeying around in your water wells. if you call the briefing room and i don't answer right away, give me a couple minutes to get back here. >> sergeant nicholas heads the special response team that will attempt to retrieve the key. but to prevent the inmate from swallowing it, they mu

made it through it, i got it done. >> kelly mcnut was one of the more colorful inmates we met at the maricopanty jail and her tattoos were some of the more provocative we've ever seen on a female inmate. >> and then the moon doing something to the lady. and look and see how the moon doesn't look happy doing it but she's still like getting her. >> while some inmates have their ink work done before getting locked up -- >> this is the outline of arizona with the building with the flag. i got that in the army. >> -- we met plenty of others who get their tattoos on the inside. >> i got this knocked out in prison. the name of the project is orient heights. the building i grew up in is 191, fairwood ave.. >> everything that i got is a prison tattoo, actually. >> i heard somewhere prison tattoos are like the prison experience. it hurts when you're getting them, it's bloody, some scabs and bruises but when it's all healed up and it's all said and done, there's something left over. >> nice back piece, ain't it? get your back piece on camera, baby! huh? showing off your work, son. >> yeah? >> huh? >> th

. >>> life inside the maricopa county jail in phoenix, arizona, is constantly changing. due to a steady influx of nearly 400 inmates per day. unlike prison, where all the inmates have been convicted of a crime, the majority of jail inmates have either been accused of a crime or are awaiting sentencing. most of these new arrivals will stay a day or two before leaving on bond or dismissal of charges. others might stay for years, until their cases are settled. but no matter how long they're here, jail has a way of changing people. the dorms at maricopa's women's facility can be as transformative a setting as any. and one dorm in particular has earned a reputation. >> this particular dorm, "g" dorm, houses a lot of different inmates. a lot of them are repeat offenders and they come back in and see each other and they begin these relationships that are unauthorized or that we don't allow. so it can get pretty wild here in "g" dorm. >> one of those repeat offenders, kelley mcnaughton, is better known by her nickname. >> mcnaughty. as every officer here knows me. the sergeants.

. >>> life inside the maricopa county jail in phoenix, arizona, is constantly changing. due to a steady influx of 400 inmates per day. unlike prison where all the inmates have been convicted of a crime, the majority of jail inmates have been either accused of a crime or are await iing trial. others might stay for years until their cases are settled. but no matter how long they're here, jail has a way of changing people. the dorms at maricopa's women's facility, the estrella jail can be as transformative a setting as any. and one dorm in particular has earned a reputation. >> this particular dorm, g dorm houses a lot of different inmates. a lot are see each other and they have relationships that are unauthorized or not allowed. >> one of those repeat offenders is better known by their nickname. >> mcnaughty. every officer knows me. sergeants. i tried to get them to change my name tag to mcnaughty, but they wouldn't. >> kelley mcnaughton is a game player. she runs schemes, runs games, tends to become a controller of a pod. what we call pod boss. >> this is my entourage. i h

that's when i'm going to come full force your way. >> travino spent the last six years inside maricopa fighting a murder charge that could have earned her the death penalty. during that time, she was involved in numerous assaults on staff. >> rude dude with attitude. that's what they call me. the officers. >> in fact, travino told us she couldn't even remember how many times she had been tased. >> my whole back, i have, like, scars. this is a big one. this one's where i could put my finger -- see how big it is? i just didn't care. i was in here for the death penalty case. i didn't have nothing to lose. i mean, i have my family, don't get me wrong and my son and everything like that. but i just had that mentality. i was like, [ bleep ] that. i'm going to give them hell. >> sometimes you get the nice, sweet rosie, if she wants to be nice and sweet. and sometimes you get the crazy, i'm going it kill you rosie. >> travino proved both rosies could be equally dangerous. >> i want to touch it. >> staff warned me about this. she can actually draw people in. which she did on many occasions. and

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joe arpaio of the maricopa county accused the administers of cooking the books.elieve this. why not? >> well, you can play around with statistics. i always had a feeling that a lot of these people that we put on hold turn over to i.c.e., really were not being deported. i did a survey last three months, found out that over 1200 illegal aliens in our jails, a third that were released have criminal records and still booked back into the jail, six, seven, eight times, keep cooking back. how come they're not deported? they're high-level violators. that's the question i have regarding this situation. >> do you know at what point -- if a snapshot is taken to say, all right, we have deported you or sent you back, could we just in the rounding up process and they count that when they haven't gone back? just been rounded up? right? >> they're rounded up, booked into my jails for criminal violations, we put holds on them, they're turned over to i.c.e., and then how come they keep coming back? they should be back where they came from or they're being let out of the back door

>> the minute we met josh pike at the maricopa county jail in phoenix, arizona, he stood out. >> look at this. give us a fricken -- this is all we have to cut our fingernails and sharpen our pencils. that's what the black stuff is on there. after you emery board your nails you have a little sashay action going on. you know what i mean? stop. you know what i mean? >> josh pike was a firehose on full open throttle that was uncontrollable. was whipping around and you just -- you couldn't contain the stream that was josh pike. >> i have to say the dinners have gotten better. i don't know what they did. i guess they have a new nutritionist or something like that that's coming through here and shaking things up. the dinners are a little bit better. i mean, they're edible. >> josh pike is great for tv. huge personality. however, i didn't quite realize he was going to be such a difficult interview subject. >> what's going on with you? you're getting a little approaching over there, huh? what's going on? i see you out of my peripheral, i'm on you like that. i know what's going on, pal. 50, 50

. >> we met brian crist at the maricopa county jail in phoenix shortly before his conviction on a murderrge. >> origami, that's my getaway. i have a bird that flies and a frog that jumps. the champ. front flip. put him in the olympics, man. >> it's really striking and poignant to see inmates who oftentimes are in for incredibly violent crimes sitting there delicately folding this paper over hours into frogs and elephants and that kind of thing. and it really does seem to calm their nerves and almost transform them. >> nobody had a menagerie to match that of philip stroud, who was serving three life sentences for murder at the wabash valley correctional facility in indiana. >> basically making origami figures. you've got the lion, you've got the swan, you've got the rabbit, little puppy, dinosaur, flower. my niece, she loves the little goldfish. this is my favorite one because it turns into like a kaleidoscope-type thing. the hardest one to make was probably the elephant because it got a lot 6 folds. i'm an artsy fartsy type of guy, i guess you could say. it's basically a way to spend my

. >> in the pocket of the unions is what happened. number 4 ken maricopa hell that wall street keeps closing at record levels where is the job investment? i'm going to do this one, heather. here it is, ken. they are cutting back on jobs, all right? but the companies are making more money. the bottom line goes up because technology can take the place of people. that's why the stock market goes up and fat cats who have stock are making a lot of money. but people -- in the job market, that's sla rinking because of technology. so that's what happens. all right. here is the last letter. bill turner is angry in silver city, new mexico. this weekend we're supposed to turn our clocks ahead by one hour. it naws united states me that our government dictates what time get up and go to work in the name of daylight savings time. the government is making us do it, right? >> this weekend. we're all going to change. >> where did that come from daylight savings time. >> it originally started to come from farming and all of that then during world war i and world war ii it w

for making that possible for the forester's football to be the bad edward feral on monday the vice mayor of maricopa arizona posed that obituary to his facebook page that champion the late fred phelps as the man who forever stop the larger gay rights and welfare rolls admiration for phelps is bad enough it turns out that the article he posted wasn't even a real article it was a satirical piece published by the onion merrily by smear for always so blinded by love for a hateful bigot that he missed the difference and the very very ugly sean hannity during wednesday's broadcast of his radio show the conservative pundit and fox news host blasted obamacare is birth control mandate you said it was ridiculous for people to expect other people to subsidize their birth control when they can walk into a bar and grab on demands for free seriously elice. lannie in every bar just about new york now you can go. condoms guess how much they cost yes but i do not think much less effective wealthy people can afford almost ninety nine percent of lanny lanny you can go on are you i urge you to go on and i want you to h

maricopa county attorney bill montgomery says prosecutors will wait until after the california trial trial in arizona. montgomery said wednesday that if sharper is convicted in california, it could strengthen the arizona case. >> >> a peeping tom has been arrested after repeatedly pursuing a woman in palo alto who was not interested in him. the young woman was in her driverway on channing ave cleaning out her car when police say 20 year old carlos bejinez walked over and told her he was a tree trimmer. bejinez also told her that there was a dangerous tree on her property and offered his services. the woman told him to speak with her landloard but police say that was when the suepct came back three more times to bother the woman. the victim called the police and they were able to track him down with a business card he left with the victim. >> he was identified as the person who was in the window, >> >> bejinez was arrested for harassment and peeping, both misdemeanors. he was also driving on a suspended license ---- and was on probabtion in san mateo county for purchasing or receiving